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Chongqing’s Foreign Trade Surges
By Richard Zhu
China’s foreign trade growth slows to
6.2 percent in 2012, while Southwestern
China’s Chongqing Municipality
showed a different picture.
Its foreign trade of last year registered a rapid
growth of 82.2 percent.
Data from Chongqing Customs shows
that Chongqing’s foreign trade volume totaled
$53.2 billion in 2012, ranking No. 2 in Western
and Central China and the 11th nationwide, 6
positions higher over the year 2011. The city’s
exports volume amounted to 38.57 billion, up
94.5 percent over the previous year, ranking
first in Western and Central China, while the
imports volume reached 14.63 billion, up 56.2
percent year on year.
Among Chongqing’s exports, laptops
played a major role, with the total exports over
35 million. In 2012 Chongqing has exported
35.44 million laptops, valued at $12.54 billion,
1.3 times and 1.4 times from a year earlier respectively.
“Laptops became the main force of the
city’s exports, and its exports of last year accounted
for over 30 percent of the total exports,”
said an official with Chongqing Customs.
Data also shows that though in the context
of the sluggish external demand due to the
European debt crisis and slow recovery of world
economy, Chongqing’s exports to Europe and
America rose sharply. In 2012 the city’s foreign
trade volume with the Europe Union totaled
$12.04 billion, up 92.8 percent, 1.1 times over
2011, while its foreign trade with America
reached $9.31 billion, 1.3 times over the previous
year.
The rapid development of the processing
industry had boosted the growth of imports and
exports in Chongqing. The import and export
volume in the processing industry of Chongqing
in the first half of 2012 totaled $7.8 billion, accounting
for 31.1 percent of the whole import
and export volume, according to Xinhua News
Agency.
As China’s first inland bonded port, Cuntan
bonded area handled over 150,000 TEU
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